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Watermelon Daiquiri posted:I always wondered what states like wyoming did in place of texas history as a kid In New Mexico we talked a bit about the Conquistadors and tribal history (nothing detailed, just enough to not pretend bad poo poo didn't happen which is a fair bit more than most folks seem to get), and also made fun of Texas history. Thanks to the textbook consortium being steered by Texas, even Wyoming learns Texas history.
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Watched the CYOA KImmy Schmidt episode: Netflix is throwing serious shade at HBO and Game of Thrones. You can kill the reverend three times (sudden bazooka, Kimmy 'splodes!) and the third time he will call you out on it. I got the bad ending? The one where Jacqueline ruins #timesup. Ultimately it's not as fun as Bandersnatch.
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Bruceski posted:In New Mexico we talked a bit about the Conquistadors and tribal history (nothing detailed, just enough to not pretend bad poo poo didn't happen which is a fair bit more than most folks seem to get), and also made fun of Texas history. remember the alamo 
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Alhazred posted:Watched the CYOA KImmy Schmidt episode: The scene after killing the reverend three times definitely got the biggest laugh from me in the whole thing. I also got the same ending as you.
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Handsome Wife posted:The scene after killing the reverend three times definitely got the biggest laugh from me in the whole thing. I also got the same ending as you. Kinda hosed up that the reverend went to heaven after all the poo poo he did though
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Aug 8, 2020 16:21
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Anyone get to the outtakes yet? When you call Donna Maria listen to the Christmas song, twice lol
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Anyone seen Welcome to the Paradox? It popped up as a sci-fi anthology show that was all up on YouTube. e: After watching a handful of episodes, most of the series is a dud. But one episode is really a standout: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYE1VF5Ud8I feedmyleg fucked around with this message at 00:34 on Aug 9, 2020 |
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Watching the new Transformers cartoon on Netflix and man, they made these character models way too toy like. Like they wanted to make it so that the character models could actually transform into the vehicle mode but it also makes the characters look kind of crappy.
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Aug 9, 2020 04:22
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I'm overwheed by the amount of television I can access on my streaming devices. What do you guys use to curate the shows you all watch: blogs, podcasts, apps, web 3.0?
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What do you mean? There is a lot of stuff but there isn’t a lot of stuff I really am interested in watching.
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MOVIE MAJICK posted:I'm overwheed by the amount of television I can access on my streaming devices. What do you guys use to curate the shows you all watch: blogs, podcasts, apps, web 3.0? I watch a lot of trailers
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Aug 9, 2020 06:20
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I finished dark s3 and it was good. it was kind of hard to care about any of the characters due to the million bajillion plotholes but... it looked and sounded really good I guess
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Aug 9, 2020 06:42
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S3 definitely does some characters dirty but overall I liked it.
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MOVIE MAJICK posted:I'm overwheed by the amount of television I can access on my streaming devices. What do you guys use to curate the shows you all watch: blogs, podcasts, apps, web 3.0? Microsoft Excel. Tomorrow evening, I plan on watching the last episode of From the Earth to the Moon, an episode of American Dad! from two weeks ago, and a Doctor Who reconstruction of the ninth episode from The Daleks' Master Plan. This is, of course, after Game 5 of Toronto-Columbus finishes. I'm booked TV-wise until October, depending on whether or not Brooklyn Nine-Nine comes back by then (I have back-up plans in case production hasn't resumed by them). e: Wait, this question is how I find good things to watch? poo poo, I'm still watching season four of Battlestar Galactica, don't trust me.
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Aug 9, 2020 07:02
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Been smoking a bunch of weed and started watching Star Trek: TNG and it's good af, plywood sets and all. Humanity being good and pure is really what I needed atm while people in real life are horrible monsters.
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:Been smoking a bunch of weed and started watching Star Trek: TNG and it's good af, plywood sets and all. Humanity being good and pure is really what I needed atm while people in real life are horrible monsters. I'm watching Lower Decks! It's not great so far! Edit: oh my god it's so bad! Rhyno fucked around with this message at 14:55 on Aug 9, 2020 |
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Aug 9, 2020 14:40
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It doesn’t have any jokes. I can tell by tone and delivery that they meant to have jokes, but there aren’t any.
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:Been smoking a bunch of weed and started watching Star Trek: TNG and it's good af, plywood sets and all. Humanity being good and pure is really what I needed atm while people in real life are horrible monsters. To be honest, I feel like you need to be high to enjoy the first two seasons of TNG. I rewatched Encounter at Farpoint last year for probably the first time since the mid-90s and even with knowing how bad those first seasons of TNG were, I was struck with just how bad the pilot was.
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Aug 9, 2020 15:43
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Edward Mass posted:e: Wait, this question is how I find good things to watch? poo poo, I'm still watching season four of Battlestar Galactica, don't trust me.  Assuming you haven't been spoiled on the end this is a delightful statement to read over a decade after having seen the finale myself.
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:Been smoking a bunch of weed and started watching Star Trek: TNG and it's good af, plywood sets and all. Humanity being good and pure is really what I needed atm while people in real life are horrible monsters. The Orville does this for me because compared to TNGs culture in stasis where everyone just listens to classical music and reads ancient literature and has debates for fun a world where people still watch television and enjoy movies and get beers with their friends after work feels way closer to a world I'd actually want to live in.
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Chairman Capone posted:To be honest, I feel like you need to be high to enjoy the first two seasons of TNG. I don't think they're bad, at least what I've seen so far. I like the 60s sci-fi short story feel of the episodes. My father in law has been watching a lot of 50s/60s western tv reruns (Gun Smoke, Wagon Train, Maverick, etc) and TNG has a real similar feel, I dig it. Sleeveless posted:The Orville does this for me because compared to TNGs culture in stasis where everyone just listens to classical music and reads ancient literature and has debates for fun a world where people still watch television and enjoy movies and get beers with their friends after work feels way closer to a world I'd actually want to live in. I like the more abstract, timelessness of TNG for some reason. This distinction feels like a chocolate and vanilla choice, they're substantially different from each other with their flavor profiles but they're still sweet tasting in the end.
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:I like the more abstract, timelessness of TNG for some reason. This distinction feels like a chocolate and vanilla choice, they're substantially different from each other with their flavor profiles but they're still sweet tasting in the end. Yeah, they're both springing from the same problem of how we don't know what the culture and entertainment of the world will look like in the future and how it would be both a ton of work and incredibly alienating for the audience to invent an entirely fictional canon to draw upon. And if you do it poorly then you get something like Captain Kirk doing donuts in the parking lot to Beastie Boys.
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I had to take a break from Lower Decks it's so goddamned bad.
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I’m just glad The Orville doesn’t really use any media from the past 30 years or so. If you’re too current it ends up dating things incredibly quickly.
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Rhyno posted:I had to take a break from Lower Decks it's so goddamned bad. If you're having this violent a negative reaction early enough in the 26-minute episode to "take a break" you should probably just stop watching.
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I refuse to watch Lower Decks just because of the Sam's Club Rick and Morty animation style but from everything I've heard it sounds exactly like what would happen if you take a person whose entire claim to fame is running a Twitter account that makes jokes about Star Trek and then having them helm something that has to last more than two text messages. Being able to tell jokes as part of a writers room is a completely different skillset than being a showrunner.
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Handsome Wife posted:If you're having this violent a negative reaction early enough in the 26-minute episode to "take a break" you should probably just stop watching. Well also I had to poop.
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muscles like this! posted:Watching the new Transformers cartoon on Netflix and man, they made these character models way too toy like. Like they wanted to make it so that the character models could actually transform into the vehicle mode but it also makes the characters look kind of crappy. See I actually really liked that. I just really like the G1 cheesy aesthetic, makes me feel like a kid again.
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Yeah, it's clearly not a very high budget show, but I do like the blocky lo-fi style they went for. Also all the voice actors really nail their impersonations and they seem to be mostly unknowns?
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This is my favorite take on what people in the TNG era should think is "classical music": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiyZEbGSHnY
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Chairman Capone posted:This is my favorite take on what people in the TNG era should think is "classical music": My first real exposure to TNG was people making edits of it on YTMND in like 2006, it's amazing that it's been such a wealth of meme content for like 15 years at this point. The orchestra scene in The Orville was great because the show's soundtrack is done by the Hollywood Chamber Orchestra and the entire scene was done partially as a way of letting them actually get to be on screen at least once. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awuAT2G6kQA
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Aug 9, 2020 18:34
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Search Party is the most goddamn stressful comedy Ive ever seen
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Aug 9, 2020 18:47
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One thing that Youtube does that's really annoying is sometimes forgetting if I've watched something and so it recommends a video again and then I start watching it before I realize I've already seen it.
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Aug 9, 2020 18:52
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I get the opposite where it marks videos as watched that I’ve never seen.
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Aug 9, 2020 18:54
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I fall asleep to a lot of Youtube videos, so they are simultaneously videos I have watched and haven't watched.
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muscles like this! posted:One thing that Youtube does that's really annoying is sometimes forgetting if I've watched something and so it recommends a video again and then I start watching it before I realize I've already seen it. I hate this. It seems to delete your watch history after like a year, and also it'll just recommend poo poo it knows you watched already like a day later.
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oh jay posted:I fall asleep to a lot of Youtube videos, so they are simultaneously videos I have watched and haven't watched. I do this with Hulu and it makes the way itll start already watched episodes at the end so, so annoying. The Hulu support keeps saying it’s fixed but it’s obviously not. I think it’s because it automatically skips the credits so most episodes aren’t marked as finished when you watch them.
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muscles like this! posted:One thing that Youtube does that's really annoying is sometimes forgetting if I've watched something and so it recommends a video again and then I start watching it before I realize I've already seen it. For some reason Hulu marks a bunch of stuff I've watched unwatched, specifically their original series. It's annoying because I would think a new season was available but nope, just the same stuff
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I do this with Hulu and it makes the way itll start already watched episodes at the end so, so annoying. The Hulu support keeps saying it’s fixed but it’s obviously not. I think it’s because it automatically skips the credits so most episodes aren’t marked as finished when you watch them. I've been rewatching Barry, and all the episodes start up with 5 minutes left, since they have the credits, behind the scenes, and a preview at the end of each. Too much for them to detect that as the end of the episode I guess.
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oh jay posted:I've been rewatching Barry, and all the episodes start up with 5 minutes left, since they have the credits, behind the scenes, and a preview at the end of each. Too much for them to detect that as the end of the episode I guess. It happens to me on shows where it even plays the title cards. I think it skips to next riiiight before it hits the 0 seconds remaining so Hulu just saves a place instead of marking it done. It’s so stupid, it’s done it for years. It was even worse when you couldn’t reliably remove stuff from your watch history but they added that back to the browser UI a few weeks ago, thankfully.
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